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Letter to the Editor: Jobs for Teenagers
Original Source Letter To the Editor: A Dec. 8 editorial argues for inclusion of adolescents in the new administration’s public works projects. This is a good idea and would be much better if it is designed to include the development of civic responsibility and academic…
Resource type: News
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U.S. banking agency brings back retirees to manage crisis
Source: International Herald Tribune
by Geraldine Fabrikant NEW YORK: Before he retired from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. three years ago, Gary Holloway was cleaning up the remnants of the U.S. savings-and-loan crisis two decades earlier. His problems included selling leaky gas stations in Florida and the Thomas Ranch…
Resource type: News
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Companies See Volunteering As a Benefit
Source: Associated Press Online
By Vinnee Tong NEW YORK--Colleen Bramhall's friends used to think she'd sold out by going to work for Accenture as a consultant after college. Now she says they're jealous. She's been to Sri Lanka and South Africa as a participant in Accenture Development Partnerships, a…
Resource type: News
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Filling the Void
Source: Fast Company
Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin--all beckon as explicit…
Resource type: News